Speak Up Saturday

[feurioo_nospoilers]

Welcome to the weekly roundup post! What are you watching this week? What are you excited about?

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[yourlibrarian]

ANDOR. Expectations were so high after S1 that I worried it wouldn't be able to deliver. But it sure did. What I wish is that we could get a prequel series for the other (non-Jyn) characters, which are as carefully thought through and delivered as Andor was.

Finished Stolen Girl which had some good twists and turns in it. Well paced too.

Watched a docuadvert for Disney's new Treasure cruise ship. I really enjoy behind the scenes on this sort of thing though and have to say it looked very impressive and fun. One of the things they showed was the development of the Moana stage show. My favorite thing was probably the Haunted Mansion bar, both in terms of the special effects and the thought that went into the drinks.

Watched a little more of Doctor Odyssey, Brokenwood Mysteries, Miss Austen and finished off L.A. Law. I was not particularly fond of the show but it was good background stuff. Thing is, you spend hundreds of episodes with characters and you kind of miss them when it's over.

Also finished off Jeopardy Masters, and it made me laugh when twice I had the answer to something that stumped the contestants. Can't recall what it was now, but given their extensive knowledge of history and geography etc. it seems remarkable that I could come up with anything. I also liked the fun categories they did with W. Kamau Bell (Celeb Jeopardy champ) about bells and Aaron Sorkin about his works.

Also watched the China from Above documentary which had a lot of interesting features. There was one remote set of villages where people cross a river via zip line because there the cost of a bridge would be prohibitive. Nothing like seeing someone zipping across while a goat is strapped to them!

Also saw the first episode of Welcome to Wrexham's new season and am glad it's back!

[violateraindrop]

I would be fine with anything that fills the gaps in Star Wars as long as it is done like Andor. They really understood the assignment. Dan Murrell said in his review of eps 4-9 something alone the lines of everyone who wants to add to an existing franchise should have Andor as required watching.

[yourlibrarian]

Completely agree.